Fig. 6. Predicted relationship between microcirculatory hematocrit and the volume
that must be transferred from the microcirculation in order to produce the
change in hematocrit observed after 35% hemorrhage
(Table 3). If microcirculatory
hematocrit was 10, then over 7 ml kg-1 would be instantaneously
transferred into the macrocirculation in order to produce the observed
systemic hematocrit of 23.8 (see Table
3).